Ideal Inverts: The Down-Low of Getting Upside-Down
October 19th – 2:15 – 3:15 pm
A conditioning and technique-focused workshop geared towards achieving safe and successful inverts on any apparatus!l Working towards your first invert? Have an invert but struggling to get it clean? Want to improve your invert technique? This workshop is for you! This workshop will review proper invert techniques that are applicable across apparatuses, and go over a wide variety of conditioning and strength training drills both on and off apparatuses that will help you achieve and improve your invert. A focus will be on drills you can do at home without access to an apparatus so you can make gains without access to the studio or your own apparatus!
Previous Workshops
Actin’ Up Twerkology
September 28th – 2:15 – 3:15 pm
This is an all inclusive workshop available to twerkers of all backgrounds and at all stages in their journey. This workshop will focus on the breakdown of basics techniques and isolation and will build up to harder movements and sequences. Twerker will explore varying movements while practicing the techniques in a choreographed twerk piece.
Recommended: knee pads/legwarmers, booty shorts and tennis shoes.
Rope for Movement – Explopring Fundamental Shibari for Dynamic Movement
September 28th – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Shibari is the Japanese – inspired practice of aesthetic rope bondage. In this workshop, students will learn fundamental ties and techniques to begin their rope journey and applicable partner movement techniques. Though fundamental, these techniques can be combined in uncountable ways to produce elaborate shapes and scenarios. Besides learning technical skills, we will focus on rope bondage as a movement and acrobatic art, with emphasis on flow, aesthetics, and partner connections. This workshop is appropriate for students that wish to learn shibari as a performative art, or as a private practice.
Though this class is intended for pairs, individual attendees are welcome, and will have the option to either pair with a tying partner in class or self-tie.
Prerequisites:
There are no technical prerequisites for this class. Students are invited to bring their own rope if they have it. We are available to offer recommendations for in-workshop use. Students should follow the general class attire guidelines: clothing items that are easy to move in, and that are not baggy.
May 18th – 2:15 – 3:15 pm
BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE LYRA FREESTYLE WORKSHOP WITH KAREN MARIE
Do you freeze when the instructor says it’s time to freestyle? Do you feel stiff or clunky stringing moves together? Have you wanted to work on choreographing for a show or competition but don’t know where to start? This workshop is for you!
In this workshop, participants will be guided through a variety of activities and prompts focused on building their comfort with freestyle and exploration on and around the hoop. Expect silliness, fluidity, being pushed out of your comfort zone, reflection, and, of course, freestyling 🙂
This workshop is catered towards beginners and early intermediate students. At least two months of Lyra is required. Sign Up Here or Via the Athena Vertical Dance App
June 1st – 2:15 – 3:15 pm
LEARN THE ART OF BELLY DANCE WITH KAT ROSS ALL LEVELS WELCOME
Learn the art of belly dance while developing stamina, deepening cultural appreciation, and having fun.
Award-winning performer, Kat, teaches this fun, low-impact dance in a comfortable welcoming atmosphere. Everyone can belly dance, including you! We will learn a short choreography that will give you combos that you can break apart and rework for your own use
Sign Up Here or use the Athena Vertical Dance App
June 15th – 2:15 – 3:15 pm
TAKING THE STAGE PERFORMER WORKSHOP WITH MIREYA LACE AND JANE AIR – ALL LEVELS WELCOME
Ever struggled with how to hold the stage presence without fidgeting? Ever questioned what to do with your hands when your holding absolutely still or moving to the beat in the song? Ever questioned how to hold your audience when you’re performing or to maintain power in your movements when there is a quiet space in the music?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Taking the Stage is the workshop for you. This 60 minute workshop will focus on the essential elements of holding an audience, holding your space on stage, and utilizing all aspects of your body to create choreo. We will teach you each of these elements through a choreographed piece, followed with a chance to freestyle.
Required: Kneepads
Recommended per your preference: socks and/or heels Sign Up Here or Via the Athena Vertical Dance App
June 29th – 2:15 – 4:15 pm
HARNESSING YOUR INNER FELINE WITH JUDAS SAINT JAMES: A CONFIDENCE AND SLOW BURN MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Objective: The objective of this workshop is to build confidence through embracing our feline energy and applying it onstage through slow burn movement and audience interaction.
Description: This class is about how to approach movement through your own personal feline energy. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about some of the mythical origins of feline deities in Africa and Egypt with a special focus on Bastet. Bastet is a Kemetic (Egyptian) goddess of cats, sensuality, pleasure, dance and healing. Many of these things fall under movement and performance art. Understanding her energy and how we can tap into it as people and performers will be at the core of this class. This class is about embracing and validating individuality and inner confidence and then applying it through slow burn movements. While movement will be part of this class, Harnessing Your Inner Feline focuses on looking inward and exploring your own energetics around eroticism and sensuality.
Recommended per your preference: socks and/or heels Sign Up Here or Via the Athena Vertical Dance App
